Manufacture of articles from pulp.



No. 648,28l. V Patented Apr. 24, I900. W. W., A. 8:. F. McEWAN.

MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM PULP.

, (Application filed Sept. 6, 71899.) (No Model.)

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NITED STATES IVILLIAM WMCEVAN, ARTHUR MOEIVAN, AND FRANK MCEIVAN, OF\VHIP- PANY, NEIV JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO THE STONY BROOK PAPER COM- PANY,OF SAME PLACE.

MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM PULP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,281, dated April24, 1900.

Application filed September 6, 1899. 'Serial No. 729,639. (Nospecimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM W. MO- EWAN, ARTHUR MCEWAN, and FRANK Mo-EWAN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Whippany, in thecounty of Morris and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in the Manufacture of Articles from Pulp; and we do(leclare the following to be a full, clear, and

to exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is.a plan view of the blank. Fig. 2 is aperspective View of a completed tray. Fig. Sis a similar view of abasket made according to our process. Fig.

2o 4 is a section through the tray shown in Fig.

2. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail Views of a pictureframe made according toour process.

This invention has relation to the manufacture of articles of irregular,curved, plicated, or scalloped form from paper or other fibrous pulp,and has for its object the provision of an article of this character inwhich are retained for decorative and ornamental purposes the surfacecreases, folds, and characteristic surface configuration which a sheetof moist pulp naturally assumes when manipulated to change its initialform.

In carrying out our invention we take a sheet of paper or other fibrouspulp, such as is indicated at A, cut to the proper size and in such acondition of moisture as to enable it to be readily bent up andmanipulated to the desired form. This shaping or manipulation varies incharacter according to the particular article to be made and in everycase is without pressure of such character as to prevent or destroy thecreased or ridged formation of surface which results. In the mannerindicated we form the desired article--such, for instance, as the tray Bin Fig. 2 or the basket-body 0 (shown in Fig. 3) or the picture-frame,(shown in Fig. 6.) The basket-body may afterward be provided with ahandle D of any suitable character, such as braided strips of pulp,whose ends are glued to the body.

The blank from which the desired article is made is manipulated or bentby hand or any suitable tool. In the case of a tray or basket the edgeportions only of the blank are bent upward. In the case of apictureframe almost the entire blank or only the marginal portionsthereof may be shaped upward. In each case, however, it is designed topermanently preserve the creases or ridges which result in shaping thearticle to form. These creases or ridges are such as result fromplication or gathering of the surplus material of the pulp blank when itis formed, as above described, into the desired article, and theseplications, creases, or ridges form a distinctive feature of the presentinvention.

After formation the articles may be finished by the application of anysuitable coating, glue being usually an element thereof. This coating,which fills up the pores of the article, also serves to keep it fromflattening out under the influence of moisture.

By employing colored or printed pulps or by decorating with gold-paintor the like, or by a combination of both, articles of great beauty maybe made, their distinguishing and characteristic feature being in allcases the naturally ridged, creased, or embossed surface configurationabove described.

Our invention is applicable to the manufacture of card-trays, smallbaskets and other receptacles, picture-frames, and a large variety ofuseful articles, as well as those of purely-decorative character.

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

The process of manufacturing articles from pulp, which consists in firstmaking a sheet of pulp and shaping the same intoa blank of the desiredform, second, bending portions of said blank while in a moist conditionout 2 v p p 648,281

of the plane of the blank into an article of In testimony whereof-weaffix our signa- 1c manufacture, with pressure of such charaetures inpresence of two witnesses.

ter as not to destroy the correlative creasesand ridges naturallyassumed by. the pulp, WILLIAM MOEWAN' third, drying the article topreserve such ARTHUR MOEWAN creases and ridges, and finally applying afinishing coating to said article to fill up the Witnesses: I

pores thereof and keep it in form, substan- DAVID H. BURNETT,

- WM. A. Boss.

FRANK MCEWAN.

tially as specified.

